Thanks Bob for the explanation.

Since Frank was given wrong information for some things, can you perhaps confirm or deny the following:

Originally Posted by Frank
The 861V6 is a completely new unit from the ground up. To upgrade your current 861, you will need to replace everything except the case. There is a new backplane, which means all of the new cards are neither hardware nor software compatible with the old cards. The new digital cards also have new DACs.

That is a point which concirns a lot of people i think. At least it concirns me that i cannot re-use current cards..

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